And Cuba Plans To Survive Both Drastic Perils!!
The world's best source for news, London's BBC, thankfully has a truly great journalist stationed in Cuba. Will Grant therefore is an antidote for the weakened U. S. mainstream media that has evolved into vast propaganda outlets for well-funded special groups, including those with a special interest since 1959 in recapturing Cuba for the latest generation of Little Havana-based Batistianos. This week the BBC's Will Grant provides another important report from Havana that propagandized Americans need to study...because it reveals how Cuba is trying to survive both the perils the Cuban people know as the genocidal nature of the U. S. Blockade and the pandemic scourge of COVID-19.
Even in the last few days of the Little Havana-aligned Trump presidency, the U. S. was adding more genocidal policies to harm masses of Cuban families, shamefully taking advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic to further turn the screws against Cuban families. But the headline above and the above excerpts from Will Grant's latest BBC article from Havana speaks of "Optimism as Cuba is set to test its own Covid vaccine." As he points out, Cuba's reputation in the past "30 years of experience in biotechnology and immunology" is cause for hope for the Cuban people.
The director of Cuba's renowned Finlay Institute, Dr. Vincente Verez Bencomo, told the BBC's Will Grant, "Our plan is to, of course, first immunize our population. Moving to commercial production of Soberana 2 is our plan because we must provide totally free education and healthcare for our people. We plan to have 100 million does during 2021."
The Pan American Health Organization's representative in Cuba, Dr. Jose Moya, told the BBC's Will Grant, "We are very optimistic that Cuba's vaccine will soon help the Cuban people and also help others get past the pandemic."
Because of the Pandemic Cuba was forced to close its airports back in March and, believing it had a handle on COVID-19, the island reopened its airports to international visitors on November 15th, 2020. Since then the cases and deaths from the virus have surged drastically.
Cubans depend on their television anchors to keep them updated on COVID-19 and, as you can see above by the photo and graphic, news anchor Rosy Amaro had the sad duty today -- Feb. 17-2021 -- to report that three more Cubans had died in the past 24 hours from COVID-19 with 824 more positive cases detected and 608 patients released from hospitals.
Meanwhile, the Soberana vaccine painstakingly being groomed and tested in Havana by the Finlay Institute will hopefully soon help Cubans on the island survive the two perils that the BBC's great journalist in Cuba, Will Grant, wrote about this week in a major international article. The immediate peril is COVID-19. The ongoing, everlasting, and long-term peril is the genocidal U. S. Blockade. Since March of 2020 COVID-19 has threatened Cuban families. Since January of 1962 the U. S. Blockade has threatened Cuban families while also highlighting a massive shame it is inflicting on America and its Democracy. Of course, any day now the embargo-blockade might help another generation of Batistiano Cubans in Little Havana to finally recapture the island!!!
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